How To Heroes

A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.

A complete suite of orthographic mapping references and student folder aids for Really Great Reading curricula, featuring both Countdown and Blast levels.

Weekly ELA homework packets focused on high-interest animal adaptations for elementary students (K-5). Each packet contains four nights of structured work: Night 1 (Reading), Night 2 (Vocabulary), Night 3 (Comprehension Activity), and Night 4 (Comprehension Questions), customized with visual icons, sentence frames, and simplified tracking guides for varying reading levels.

A comprehensive 4-week ELA curriculum designed for Special Education Extended School Year (ESY) programs, serving grades 1-4 with differentiated activities, daily visual slides, and hands-on, multi-sensory support.

A comprehensive Science of Reading-aligned spelling program designed to build orthographic mapping, syllable juncture automaticity, complex vowel team knowledge, morphological awareness, and multisyllabic decoding skills. Includes universal routine kits, teacher instructional guides, and structured student practice sheets.

A spelling and phonics sequence exploring spelling patterns for the soft G /j/ sound, covering initial J, terminal -dge and -ge, and the soft G triggers GE, GI, and GY.

An intervention sequence designed to help struggling second-grade students master irregular high-frequency words ('Heart Words') through high-repetition game-based practice at school and home.

A comprehensive 5-week progress monitoring sequence for tracking decoding and encoding skills of long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) vowel teams using equivalent, parallel forms.

A 3-day targeted intervention sequence designed to help struggling readers master main idea identification using hands-on, color-coded highlighting strategies. Students learn to dismantle paragraph structures like blueprint architects, physically separating the 'roof' (main idea) from the 'supporting pillars' (details).

A comprehensive, evidence-based 20-week reading intervention sequence designed for small-group instruction. Focuses on segmenting and blending VC, CVC, and CCVC words using systematic phonics routines, visual Elkonin mats, and mCLASS-aligned PSF and NWF modeling. Specially adapted for a once-weekly 30-minute session with progress monitoring every 4 weeks.

A cohesive reading and writing assessment sequence featuring diverse biomes and unique animal adaptations, styled as a standardized elementary school assessment packet.

A comprehensive 13-week reading fluency and comprehension curriculum designed for second-grade students. Progresses systematically from 50 to 90 WCPM through science and narrative texts with deep DOK questions, all formatted in double-sided weekly spreads with a beautiful sky-explorer aviation theme.

A comprehensive 9-day personal narrative writing unit for second graders themed around 'What I Did This Summer'. It guides students step-by-step through the narrative progression ladder: focusing a seed story, sequencing with temporal transitions, elaborating actions/feelings, and crafting reflective closure.

A 5-day ELA unit based on Clark the Shark, focusing on AZ ELA Standard 2.RL.1. Students act as Shark Detectives to ask and answer Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How questions using direct evidence from the text to study character behavior and school rules.

A 12-day personal narrative writing sequence for 2nd grade. Students learn to focus on 'seed' stories, structure their writing with strong beginnings, middles, and ends, use sensory details, and bring characters to life with feelings and dialogue before crafting their final published memory.

An interactive 4-day ELA reading comprehension unit for 2nd graders analyzing 'The Great Puppy Invasion'. Students act as detectives to investigate how the neat and tidy citizens of Barkerville respond to the sudden, chaotic, and cuddly arrival of hundreds of puppies.

A 5-day ELA unit for 2nd grade focusing on Arizona ELA Standard 2.RL.3. Students analyze how the main character in Alastair Heim's 'Picture Day Perfection' plans chaos, faces challenges, and responds to a surprise ending, tracking character growth and perspective shifts.

A 5-day ELA sequence focusing on Arizona ELA standard 2.RL.3, where second-grade students analyze how characters respond to major events and challenges using Judith Viorst's classic mentor text, 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'.

A comprehensive color-coded sentence-building curriculum that scales tactile, Lego-style grammar modeling across elementary grade levels to make parts of speech and sentence structure completely visual.

A series of early elementary foundational math and reading lessons designed for 1st and 2nd grade classrooms.

A 5-part literacy unit based on the picture book Drawn Together by Minh Lê and Dan Santat. It is designed for Year 2 students working at a Year 1 level, integrating visual comprehension of Thai cultural elements with structured sentence building (GPV) and guided narrative text creation.

A 5-lesson Stage 1 English unit based on Minh Lê and Dan Santat's 'Drawn Together' exploring visual literacy, GPV, and text creation.